US President Donald Trump said there would be "very serious retaliation" after two American soldiers and a civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that Washington blames on the Islamic State group.
"This was an ISIS attack against the US and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria that they do not fully control," he said.
Trump told reporters at the White House that Syria's president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was "devastated by what happened" and stressed that Syria was fighting alongside American troops.
US Central Command announced that three soldiers were wounded in an ambush by a lone ISIS member in central Syria.
The US military said the gunman was killed.
The attack on US troops in Syria was the first with casualties since the overthrow of President Bashar Assad a year ago.
The Pentagon's chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, said the civilian killed was an American translator and that the attack targeted soldiers involved in ongoing counterterrorism operations in the region. /Telegraph/
